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Streaming services

Streaming services are increasingly in demand today as applications for streaming video and other content continue to expand. To meet the demands of a growing, global audience, content providers must provide instant and uninterrupted access to streaming services on any device from any location, with technology for content delivery that ensures the highest quality online experience. Anything less and users won’t hesitate to look for streaming services elsewhere.

But delivering reliable, high-quality streaming services that can easily scale to meet audience demand is no easy task. That’s why so many content providers turn to Akamai for streaming server solutions to simplify the implementation and management of streaming services technology.

Akamai solutions for streaming services.

Akamai’s Adaptive Media Delivery enables providers to deliver streaming services at the highest quality and to increase audience engagement by adapting in real time to the available bandwidth of each user.

Built on the Akamai Intelligent Platform™, Akamai’s streaming services solution is optimized for Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) streaming to deliver high-quality viewing experiences on fixed or mobile networks and at different connection speeds. Adaptive Media Delivery serves as both an on-demand and live streaming server, supporting formats that include HTTP Live Streaming, HTTP Dynamic Streaming, Microsoft Smooth Streaming and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP.

Capabilities of Akamai’s streaming services

Scale and capacity. Adaptive Media Delivery has enabled streaming of some of the world’s largest online events, including the Olympics, the Super Bowl and the FIFA World Cup – events that have become benchmarks for online streaming capacity and scale. Scalability and capacity are critical to successful streaming services, as it is impossible to know when a piece of content may go viral.

Proximity to audience. Congestion, latency and packet loss on the Internet can significantly limit the quality of online video. To minimize the impact of network congestion, Akamai deploys a network of edge servers with 20 to 100 times more Points of Presence (POPs) than other global CDN providers, bring content closer to the audience for lower latency and higher quality.

Akamai secures and delivers digital experiences for the world’s largest companies. Akamai’s intelligent edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the cloud, so customers and their businesses can be fast, smart, and secure. Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them realize competitive advantage through agile solutions that extend the power of their multi-cloud architectures. Akamai keeps decisions, apps, and experiences closer to users than anyone — and attacks and threats far away. Akamai’s portfolio of edge security, web and mobile performance, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions is supported by unmatched customer service, analytics, and 24/7/365 monitoring. To learn why the world’s top brands trust Akamai, visit www.akamai.com, blogs.akamai.com, or @Akamai on Twitter. You can find our global contact information at www.akamai.com/locations. Published 09/18.